“When we first started rehearsing ... The bad deal would plague Moby Grape for decades of their on-and-off existence. Still, the band was excited to make an album, which it recorded in Los ...

and Moby Grape found itself in the middle of a bidding war. It signed with Columbia, which pronounced the band San Francisco's Beatles and spared no expense on its first album. But the label's ...

“We laughed all the way home,” he said, recalling the first Moby Grape jam session. “We knew this was going to be good.” The band’s 1967 debut album, “Moby Grape,” awed rock critic ...

What killed Moby Grape? Management nightmares, the implosion of the catalytic Spence, and the bummer of cutting a debut album as America’s Beatles and watching it flop. That album remains ...